AYATOLLAH Ali Khamenei’s top crony has said Iran is “ready” for the doomsday scenario of sustained Trump-sanctioned strikes. The country’s leadership has been putting up a brave front as an armada and fleet of fighter jets – the biggest US military build-up in the region since the Iraq war – …

The amnesty decree issued by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on February 18 has sparked widespread debate among Syrian legal experts and human rights lawyers over its legality and constitutionality, particularly given that it was issued by a transitional authority. The controversy has intensified over the legitimacy of granting such a …

Iran-backed PIJ terror group’s flexible command structure and unfettered emphasis on armed conflict has helped it expand influence in the territory, deepening the challenge for Israel With Hamas constrained by a host of political and military factors, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the most prominent Palestinian terror group after Hamas, has upped …

Trump wants Britain’s help with another illegal war in the Middle East, which could have far reaching consequences US president Donald Trump has signalled that British military bases may be crucial to an attack on Iran, without offering a legal justification for bombing that country. Trump posted on Wednesday: “Should …

‘What happened proves that targeting of civilians continues,’ says grandmother who survived Gaza tent attack Hanan Abu Hadaid’s family was fast asleep in their tent when the attack began. “Suddenly, everything was turned upside down,” the 60-year-old told Declassified of the Israeli airstrike on 31 January that hit their shelter …

Do Realists Hold the Solution to a World in Crisis? For almost 30 years after the Cold War ended, American foreign policy elites argued that the United States should use its unmatched military and economic power as a force for transformation. For some, this meant working to expand the role …

La nouvelle initiative lancée à Washington par les États-Unis, l’Union européenne et le Japon sur les minéraux essentiels n’est pas un simple projet industriel. Il s’agit d’une étape dans la compétition stratégique mondiale. Lorsque plus de cinquante pays se réunissent pour discuter de terres rares, d’aimants permanents, de gallium ou …

The Rising Risk of NATO-Russia Conflict For the last four years, policymakers in Washington and European capitals have been consumed by a single question: how to respond to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Their focus is understandable. Russia’s attack on its neighbor is the greatest threat to European security since …

At the “Company”, a group of “34 specialists,” sometimes referred to as “sociologists” or “political technologists,” work under Klyukin’s supervision. Responsible for monitoring and analyzing the political situation in 15 countries, they write briefing notes and conduct telephone surveys with thousands of respondents — 1,133 in the Democratic Republic of …

Iranian students chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with counter-protesters on Saturday in the latest display of anger at the country’s clerical leaders, who also face a US military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal. The gatherings at universities, which were reported by both local and diaspora media …